Preceptorship Clinical Psychologist Band 7-8a
Available as a Band 7 Preceptorship for newly/recently qualified practitioner
Specialist Community Adult Learning Disability Team, based at Willis House, Whiston, Merseyside.
We are seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is highly motivated and enthusiastic about working with adults with a learning disability. We are pleased to consider applications from recently qualified practitioners to commence in a Preceptorship Post (commence at AfC Band 7).
This post is based with the St Helens and Knowsley Specialist Community Learning Disability Team within the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are committed to supporting your professional development, with service development opportunities and regular clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to work as part of our established and highly supportive multi-disciplinary team. Core clinical functions include aspects of assessment, intervention, consultation, clinical team formulation, training, working with and across multi-disciplinary teams and systems, and supporting our programme of audit and research.
The post is supervised by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and jointly managed with the team manager. You will be joining an expanding group of psychologists with a wide range of experience and interests.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide a qualified clinical psychology service according to a plan agreed with the multi-disciplinary team and within the overall framework of policies and procedures.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy while offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care.
3. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
4. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to psychology.
5. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's mental health problems.
6. To exercise autonomous responsibility for implementing a range of psychological interventions.
7. To evaluate and make skilled decisions about treatment options.
8. To provide highly specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals.
9. To contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care.
10. To actively undertake and co-ordinate risk assessment and risk management for individual service users.
11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner regarding assessment, formulation, and treatment plans.
12. To provide staff supervision/reflective space for ward based staff.
13. To manage the workloads of assistant clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
14. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant clinical psychologists and/or trainee clinical psychologists.
15. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology.
16. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the service user group.
17. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services.
18. To lead the relevant research activity within the psychology team as required by the service.
19. To undertake service development, including complex audit and service evaluation.
20. To advise both service and professional management on psychological and/or organisational matters.
21. To be involved in the short listing and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower class with a post-graduate qualification (e.g.: Master's degree).
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
* Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis.
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
* Assessed experience of work for a minimum of six months within the field of learning disability.
* Post-qualification experience of working with individuals with complex problems.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Skills
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology in relation to working with people with learning disabilities.
* Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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